OPTICAL MEASURING UNIT AND OPTICAL MEASURING METHOD FOR OBTAINING MEASUREMENT SIGNALS OF FLUID MEDIA

• Main Authors: HUEMER, Herfried, BARTEL, Arnold, KRAUS-FÜREDER, Patrick, GULO, Stefan, SCHOLZ-MAREICH, Robert, SPRENGERS, Wolfgang
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 03.03.2021
• Subjects: CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; TESTING; TRANSPORTING

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to, for example, an optical measurement unit for obtaining measurement signals from liquid media which are present in cuvettes lined up next to one another. In one embodiment, the optical measurement unit includes a light-supplying unit for emitting an inlet radiation into the cuvettes, and a detection unit for detecting a measurement radiation exiting from the cuvettes and for converting the measurement radiation into an electrical measurement signal. In such an embodiment, the light-supplying unit has a plurality of LED light sources which emit in a spectrally different manner in the UV/VIS/NIR wavelength range, and wherein the detection unit includes at least one photodiode fixedly assigned to each cuvette of a cuvette array.